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 George Smith (royal servant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Smith was the former footman and valet in the Royal Household of Charles, Prince of Wales who alleged:
Smith served as a soldier in the Welsh Guards during the 1980s, when he saw active service in the Falklands War and in Northern Ireland.
Smith's second allegation, of a sexual relationship between the Prince of Wales and Fawcett, was repeated in a legal statement issued by him to the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Smith_(royal_servant)   (1050 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Senior royal aides say that the heir to the throne is prepared to sue George Smith, who worked for the Prince for 11 years until 1997, for breach of confidence.
Furthermore, Smith claimed that he was beaten and stalked by a hooded gunman after Diana, Princess of Wales, had made it known that she had recorded his claims in 1996 in the so-called “rape tape” that went missing after her death.
Smith’s latest revelations were expected to appear in a Sunday newspaper today after court injunctionsagainst two national newspapers, taken out last week on behalf of Michael Fawcett, a second royal servant, were relaxed on Thursday.
www.telegraphindia.com /1031110/asp/foreign/story_2554963.asp   (1096 words)

  
 Ex-royal aide who claimed rape
LONDON -- George Smith, a former royal servant whose claim of rape sparked lurid tales of sexual misdeeds within the royal household, has died at the age of 44, his father said Friday.
Smith claimed to have been raped by another royal servant in 1989.
Smith also claimed to have seen a senior royal in a compromising position with a male servant.
www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xsmith28.html   (242 words)

  
 Charles prepares to sue former servant who told tales - The Washington Times: World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Smith, a former royal valet, is expected to expand on claims that he first made to the Mail on Sunday last year when he was paid an estimated $50,000.
Smith, 43, claimed last year that, as well as being the victim of a male rape, he had witnessed an "incident" involving a senior member of the royal family and a royal servant.
Smith has not written a book, the prince's legal advisers are likely to conclude that he has broken the terms of his confidentiality clause.
washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20031108-111532-9502r   (548 words)

  
 'Smithgate' Royal Rape Tape Could Bring Down The Monarchy
Diana’s recording of her interview with a former Royal valet, George Smith, the victim of an alleged gay rape by another Royal servant.
Mr Smith was subsequently paid off by Prince Charles to the tune of three times his annual salary, as confirmed in the recent report by his private secretary, Sir Michael Peat.
On the tape, Mr Smith reportedly gives chapter and verse on another allegation already in the public domain: that he had witnessed a Royal in a compromising act with a member of staff.
www.propagandamatrix.com /281003smithgate.html   (914 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Aide calls allegations about Charles 'totally ludicrous'
LONDON – Allegations Prince Charles was involved in a scandalous incident are "totally ludicrous," a senior royal aide said Friday, referring to claims by a former royal servant that a court has blocked a newspaper from publishing.
Speculation about an incident involving a senior member of the royal family flared up last month after Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, repeated claims that she had tape recorded a statement by former royal servant George Smith, who alleged that he had been raped by another royal employee.
Smith' allegation that he was attacked surfaced again in 2001 and police did investigate, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute.
signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031107-0542-britain-royalservant.html   (613 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Charlie's got kilt in a twist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The scandal facing the heir to the throne stems from a tape made by Diana in 1996 of a former royal servant, George Smith, who claimed he was raped by another royal servant.
Smith, a military veteran who has a history of mental-health problems and alcoholism, says on the tape that he witnessed a compromising incident involving the servant and a royal.
A royal source said Charles authorized last week's statement to try to counteract the "drip, drip of innuendo, rumor, gossip.
www.nydailynews.com /news/v-pfriendly/story/135383p-120588c.html   (334 words)

  
 KeepMedia | Newsweek: Newsmakers
In it, Burrell repeats previous allegations that George Smith, another royal servant, alleges he was raped by yet another royal servant.
Smith allegedly made that claim on a tape recorded by Diana, which, as the Brits say, has gone missing.
British royal servant admits he made up sex accusation about Charles
keepmedia.com /pubs/Newsweek/2003/11/17/320318?extID=10037&oliID=229   (225 words)

  
 Charles may address nation to end rumours - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It is this avalanche of media reports in Europe and on foreign language websites that is forcing the British royal family's hand on whether Charles should take the risk of undertaking a national television broadcast to deny the rumours once and for all.
George Smith, a former royal servant who suffered from alcoholism and post-traumatic stress syndrome after fighting in the Falklands War, said on the tape he had been raped by another male royal aide.
His more controversial claim is that he witnessed a compromising homosexual encounter between a senior royal aide and a member of the royal family.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov11/f4.asp   (472 words)

  
 Gay News From 365Gay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The tape is said to contain an interview by the princess of royal servant, George Smith, who alleged that he had been raped by a royal employee.
Backed by an affidavit from Smith, but apparently by no other evidence they were ready to run a story on the alleged affair.
Instead, the royal horses were circled and Charles will say nothing, carrying on his duties as usual.
www.365gay.com /newscontent/111203charlesUpdt.htm   (562 words)

  
 CNN.com - Rape allegation rocks royals - Nov. 11, 2002
The allegation that one of Prince Charles' aides once raped a male servant -- and that some members of the royal family may have covered it up -- set the tabloids into full swing Monday as the prince's staff went into emergency meetings to work out a response.
The alleged rape victim, George Smith, told his story Sunday in The Mail, which paid him for the article.
But royal watcher Robert Jobson said there's another factor that looks bad for the royal family: When the alleged rape incident was investigated in 1996, the police were not brought in for the case.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/11/royal.allegations   (661 words)

  
 Diana's butler under fire as royal scandal grows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Newspaper editorials on Monday criticised the various royal servants for damaging the monarchy but called for an inquiry into the rape claim as well as the royals' relationship with the law.
Former royal servant George Smith alleged in a Mail on Sunday newspaper article that he was raped by one of Charles's servants in 1989 and that the man tried to assault him on a 1995 royal tour of Egypt.
During Burrell's trial, the court was told that Diana taped Smith's allegations and kept the cassette in a locked box in her sitting room.
www.namibian.com.na /2002/November/world/02963E706F.html   (718 words)

  
 Prince Charles sets talks over alleged sex scandal - Nov. 11, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The claims came after a week, which began with former royal aide Michael Fawcett taking out an injunction against the Mail on Sunday, gagging it from publishing a story based on claims by Smith, the former royal servant.
Smith was quoted by the Mail on Sunday last November as saying he told the late Princess Diana, Charles' ex-wife, in 1996 that he was raped several years earlier by one of Charles' aides.
The furor comes as the monarchy is still reeling from the publication of memoirs by the former royal servant Paul Burrell, one-time butler and confidant to Princess Diana.
www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/nov/11/wnw_7-1.htm   (550 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Prince Charles' agony abates, but will it ever end?
It also forbade identification of a "royal servant" who had claimed the story was libelous, and sought the injunction.
The gag order began to unravel, however, when The Guardian newspaper went to court to argue that the identity of royal servants who sue should not be given a cloak of anonymity denied to ordinary Britons.
The Guardian prevailed, and identified the suing servant as Michael Fawcett, former senior aide to Charles.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031113-1504-britain-charles.html   (830 words)

  
 Ex-servant defends Prince Charles as rumors continue to swirl North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It would not have been in George's remit to attend the prince or serve him tea in his bedroom, that was a job for the senior valet," Solari was quoted as saying.
W.H. Smith, a major retailer of newspapers and magazines, confirmed Monday that 14 foreign newspapers -- including titles from Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands -- were not available for sale in Britain over the weekend, because of a decision by the distributor, which supplies newspapers to the company.
George Junior Republic was founded in 1909 as a home for wayward boys by philanthropist William Ruben George.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2003/11/11/backpage/11_10_0321_33_59.txt   (4150 words)

  
 NOVEMBER 2002 - ROYAL SERVANT RAPED IN CAIRO EMBASSY.
This because George Smith's testimony was on a cassette formerly held by Princess Diana which had led police to raid Burrell's appartment.
Smith was one of five servants employed by Prince Charles during a trip to Egypt in 1995.
Smith found it a relief to be out of the threatening confines of the embassy but was afraid of returning.
www.gayegypt.com /nov20amandun.html   (2134 words)

  
 MARYLAND - Online Information article about MARYLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, 1ST BARON (C. Baltimore to a point a little south of the north-east corner of the state, and is divided by the Chesapeake See also:
George's counties, has become comparatively of little importance—24,367 long tons in 1902 and only 8269 tons in 1905.
kaolin, -abound in the east portion of the Piedmont, the kaolin chiefly in Cecil county, and material for mineral paint in Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties, as well as farther north-west.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MARYLAND.html   (5312 words)

  
 NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A royal aide said the "totally ludicrous" rumors had to be denied because they were becoming so widespread.
Speculation about an incident involving a senior royal flared up last month after Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, repeated claims that Diana had tape recorded a statement by former royal servant George Smith, who alleged that he had been raped by another royal employee.
Smith's allegation that he was attacked surfaced again in 2001 and police did investigate, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute.
www.newsmax.com /archives/ic/2003/11/7/221506.shtml   (908 words)

  
 Home - The Royal Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The royals began their tour of the Empress Hotel near downtown San Francisco by meeting Mayor Gavin Newsom and former supervisor Angela Alioto, who worked on the city's 10-year plan to combat homelessness.
Having snoozed through all the bustle when she made her debut in front of the cameras on Monday, Spain's newest little royal, Infanta Leonor, was equally sleepy-eyed while posing for her first-ever official portraits.
From Spain to Norway, Belgium to Denmark, royal families are fighting flagging public support by employing the "Diana effect" — marrying princes off to glamorous young women to add sparkle, and usually controversy, to their otherwise dull families.
royalarchive.com /index.php?...&task=view&id=1227&Itemid=2   (1381 words)

  
 The Grandfather Clock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The wooden case contained a long, or royal, pendulum and a movement that ticked seconds and struck the hour; with some movements the clock also struck the quarter hour.
From then on, the clock was left standing in a sunlit corner of the lobby, its hands resting in the position they were the moment the last Jenkins brother died.
He was told the story of the old clock and after seeing the clock for himself, decided to compose a song about the fascinating coincidence that the clock stopped forever the moment its elder owner passed away.
www.grandfatherinresidence.com /id29.html   (1842 words)

  
 Disinformation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
PRINCE William intervened in the Diana letter scandal because he believed his mother's former butler was about to divulge a secret that would endanger the monarchy, it emerged last night.
William and the rest of the Royal Family believed ex-royal servant Paul Burrell had access to secrets contained in a so-called "rape tape" recorded by Princess Diana in 1996.
On the tape, former palace valet George Smith alleges he was raped by a trusted royal aide.
www.disinfo.com /site/printarticle864.html   (281 words)

  
 Prince Charles denies rumor about his sex life / Trouble is, media can't detail allegations
But it did not go away, and on Thursday night, in one of the weirder episodes in the recent history of the royal family, Charles publicly denied a widely circulated story about his sex life without saying what it was.
On the tape, according to news reports, George Smith, a former royal servant who had suffered from alcoholism and post- traumatic stress syndrome after fighting in the Falklands War, said he had been raped by another male royal aide.
At the time, Smith's account threw the ravening British tabloid press into an almost unbearably frustrating quandary, once they figured out who was said to have been involved.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/08/MNGEM2THR91.DTL   (470 words)

  
 Shakespeare's Biography: Information on Shakespeare's Parents, Siblings, Career as Actor, Children, Marriage, Death, ...
The actual date of Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday, and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is accepted as Shakespeare's birth place.
George Douglas Brown, when discussing Shakespeare, often used to say he knew how to 'pluck the guts' out of a tome" (Neilson 45).
To William Kempe, William Shakespeare, and Richard Burbage, servants to the Lord Chamberlain, upon the council's warrent dated at Whitehall xv die Marcij 1594 for two several comedies or interludes showed by them before her Majesty in Christmas time last past, viz; upon St. Stephan's day and Innocent's day, xiiij li.
www.shakespeare-online.com /biography   (6028 words)

  
 CNN.com - Charles flies home to media storm - Nov. 9, 2003
Prince Charles is returning home from a state visit to Oman as British newspapers publish more details surrounding allegations made by a former royal servant involving the heir to the throne.
But Prince Charles has already confirmed he is the royal they're talking about -- and that the claims are not true.
The Mail on Sunday may have taken the view "publish and be damned" -- but many royal observers say it's the prince who could be most damaged by this latest allegation of royal scandal -- not the paper.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/11/09/uk.charles   (565 words)

  
 CBC News:Charles plots strategy as scandal swirls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A former royal valet, George Smith, says he saw an incident involving Charles and another royal servant, according to the Sunday Mail.
In the past, Smith claims to have been raped by the same servant.
But his office issued a denial even before he was named in the scandal, dismissing Smith's allegations about the prince as ludicrous.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/11/09/charles_031109   (270 words)

  
 The Heir's Dirty Laundry (washingtonpost.com)
It was Peat who sent this latest ruckus spinning into hyper-drive last week when he officially denied that Charles had anything to do with a sexual incident "some years ago involving a senior member of the royal family," which he wouldn't otherwise discuss.
It's a sign of the disarray about succession, I suspect, that so many of the royal family's former servants and retainers are rushing to sell their memoirs, secreted letters and other memorabilia.
The entrepreneurial Smith, let it be said, was only following in the anything-for-sale tradition of Paul Burrell, the "trusted" butler of the late Princess Diana.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A24519-2003Nov10.html   (786 words)

  
 What the Butler Saw - And why the English press can't talk about it. By June Thomas
At issue is former royal servant George Smith's allegation that several years ago he witnessed a "sexual incident" involving Prince Charles (originally described as a "senior royal") and a servant.
A Guardian piece satirized the circumlocutions the press has resorted to: "A person who cannot be named for legal reasons has secretly denied participating in an alleged act that cannot be described for legal reasons.
Just ask Camilla." Another vaguely homophobic sentiment was present in a Times op-ed that noted: "It used to be argued that [the royal family] provided value for money, pulling in tourists to gawp outside Buckingham Palace, but that contention no longer seems likely.
www.slate.com /id/2091148   (958 words)

  
 CNN.com - Charles in talks with advisers - Nov. 10, 2003
Injunctions prevent the UK's media revealing details of the allegation, but that did not prevent Sunday's newspapers hinting at the scandal involving a second royal servant.
And it gave no specific details of an alleged incident Smith claims to have witnessed, except to say it involves a senior royal.
On Thursday, Clarence House issued a pre-emptive statement saying he was the "senior royal" involved in the allegations and that the allegations were untrue.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/11/10/uk.charles   (650 words)

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